Tonight I watched Prime Minister Mark Carney take the actual Heated Rivalry Canada fleece from Hudson Williams, slip it on and say: “This is true soft power.”

From Copernicus: This shows how the expected date for breaching 1.5C has been creeping ever closer in recent years. The orange date shows the baseline for the extrapolation; the red date shows when 1.5C is breached based on the trend...

Frikkin amazing stuff.

Line graph time series of annual mean sea surface temperature anomalies from 1982 to 2024 in the Caribbean Sea during September to November. There is a long-term increasing trend and 2024 is the warmest on record. Anomalies are relative to 1982-2010.

Here's a look at recent warming in the Caribbean during the September to November period since 1982. This is driven by human-caused climate change and fuels these powerful hurricanes. 🌊

More views at zacklabe.com/united-state...

Not the rose; any of the others would look great

10/10

‘Marine apocalypse’: Algal bloom devastates South Australia’s coastal ecosystems A catastrophic algal bloom — fueled by warming oceans and calm marine conditions — is killing marine life on the shores of South Australia on an unprecedented scale. Tracey Carpenter reports.

Your 'moment of doom' for May 13, 2025 ~ Marine apocalypse.

“We’ve seen every kind of life disappear from these waters. This is more than just a bloom. It’s a collapse. We don’t know what will recover and what won’t."

www.greenleft.org.au/content/mari...

Yes!!

They are a starting point for negotiating. They’ll be partially or totally rolled back when Trump gets other countries to bend the knee, make concessions, do whatever he wants etc

Heat exposure on Western Australian coral reefs is literally off the charts.

24 Degree Heating Weeks now at Ningaloo - the highest ever recorded.

6-8 DHW is lethal for most branching corals.

>20 is catastrophic.
coralreefwatch.noaa.gov/product/vs/m...

Power flows to the most boring man in the room. (Quote from Bob Ellis)

We were planning to go in 2026 but have decided to avoid for the next few years.

Jack Boot

Jess Stapo

I love that these complete morons assumed we were sending palettes of cash to countries and not sending things like rice and wheat while paying American farmers for those goods

An intense marine heatwave is unfolding off Western Australia.

theconversation.com/a-marine-hea...

Around 70% of the electricity powering Christmas lunches across Australia today came from renewables.

It kept fridges cool, stoves hot, and ovens roasting.

A festive feast powered by clean energy!

AUSTRALIA HOTTEST SPRING ON RECORD
Temperature anomaly +2.08C above the 1961-1990 (about +1.5C vs 1991-2020), it beats Spring 2020 by 0.05C.
Pretty much warm allover, being Tasmania quite an exception.
Map by BOM

Seems to a very slow field at Optus. Good thing as there would be another 50 runs on the India total yesterday if it wasn’t. #AusvsInd

bird sounds

Line graph time series of change in global ocean heat content since 1955 over the 0-700 m layer. There is a long-term increasing trend through 2024, which is accelerating over time.

Upper ocean heat content is also soaring off the chart with the latest data update from the Japan Meteorological Agency...

0-700 meter graphic at zacklabe.com/climate-chan...

Wow. 49.3 degrees in Geraldton and 49.9 in Carnarvon today.

Going to the cricket today and it’s 38 degrees, which will keep plenty of spectators away. I do think sports seasons should all be shifted by a season- eg spring for soccer and autumn for cricket. This would have to be via international cooperation involving many sports codes so very unlikely.

Saw a few red tailed black cockatoos this morning. Unusual and welcome sight in the city.

20.1 mm in the rain guage. I can smell petrichor- the smell of a garden coming back to life.

Love having a WiFi enabled rain gauge. We are cheering the numbers as if we were auctioning the house. 16.8mm and counting

What a beautiful series Planet Earth 3 is. So much extraordinary footage, although a melancholy watch as I ponder how vulnerable it all is.

This seems to be a benign place. I’m enjoying reading climate change posts without the blizzard of deniers spouting nonsense.